Replication Data for: Economic Impact of the South China Sea Dispute in China-Philippines Relations from 2012 to 2016: A DM-LFM analysis

File Description: Replication ReadMe File
Author: Dianyi Yang
Last Edited: 29 November, 2023


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SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: R (4.2.2) was used.

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COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT: Analyses were run on a Huawei Matebook 13 (2021 Intel) using Windows 11 with 16GB of memory. 

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RUNTIME: The five R scripts (1, 1.1, 2, 2.1, 3) should take less than 30 minutes to run. The first and second take less than 20 minutes to run, while the rest take around 10 minutes to run. At the end of running all three scripts, the code, data, outputs, and stored results occupy just under 390MB of hard drive space. 

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A NOTE ON DATA SOURCES: The raw, original files for exports and imports data are manually collected from Customs of China.

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CODE REQUIREMENTS: 

The code relies on the following R packages: reshape2, devtools, synthdid, tidyverse, bpCausal, fixest, modelsummary,
           kableExtra, coda